Yoroshiku, Japanese Typekit users!

We are pleased to announce that, starting today, the Typekit website is available in Japanese. Building on top of our first localization effort for French, we’ve been working to translate and further localize our user interface for the Japanese language.

If the default language for your browser or operating system is set to Japanese, you should automatically see the Japanese version of Typekit. You’ll also notice a new addition to the “Change Language” links in the footer of any page, where you can click to choose any available language you prefer.

What you’ll see in Japanese

As with the French version of Typekit, there are some small differences between the English and Japanese versions that we’d like to mention.

Lists are not yet available in Japanese, and so have been hidden from site navigation on the Japanese site. Japanese users will still be able to link directly to a list via its URL, but the text will be displayed in English.

We’re unable to offer our full-text search feature to non-English users at this time. Japanese users will, however, still be able to search for fonts by name.

Finally, sample text and web font specimens are not being translated.

A growing global community

We’re excited to welcome Japanese-speaking users into the Typekit community, and will continue to develop new features in all supported languages. We also know that there’s more that can be done to support Japanese users—in particular, adding and serving fonts that support the Japanese language. This is a unique challenge that we’re eager to tackle, but for the present we are pleased to be able to offer a Japanese-language interface for navigating our current collection of mostly Latin-based fonts.

Is there anything you’d like to see next? Spot any oversights? Please don’t hesitate to contact us with your thoughts on how you’d like this site to grow! We look forward to welcoming more people to the Typekit community.

Liz Galle

Typekit Support. When I’m not helping our users get the most out of Typekit, I plan blog posts and try to get better at Keynote. I live, work, & knit in Cambridge (MA), prefer Marvel to DC, and love snow.